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FRIDAY OCTOBER 4, 2019
135th YEAR ISSUE 11
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1884
Art display unpacks refugees’ stories MSU Esports to host
second annual Egg Bowl
DANIEL DYE
STAFF WRITER
This past Monday, a large-scale art exhibition was opened at Mississippi State University’s Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery. The exhibition titled Unpacked: Refugee Baggage, uses three-dimensional sculpture and recordings to tell the stories of different refugees and migrants throughout the world. The exhibition was co-created by artist and architect Mohamad Hafez and writer Ahmed Badr. Jenna Altomonte, an assistant professor in MSU’s College of Architecture, Art and Design and a global art historian, believes the exhibition is important to not only bring awareness to global refugees, but also to humanize them. “This is a way to inform campus and students about these various narratives coming from these war zones and contested zones,”
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host this free event that is open to the general public and all students. If students are unable to attend the event, the competition will also be live streamed on Twitch. The doors open at 10 a.m., and the event will open with remarks from MSU President Mark Keenum and MSU SA President Jake Manning. Counter-Strike: GO, a competitive objectivebased PC shooter, will be the first match at 11 a.m.. Rainbow Six: Siege, a closequarters PC shooter, will follow at 12:30 p.m. with the best of seven rounds. Five matches of Rocket League, a car-based soccer title, will take place at 2 p.m. Overwatch, a team-based shooter game, has a best of three rounds at 3:15 p.m.
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Unpacked: Refugee Baggage, co-created by Mohamad Hafez and Ahmed Badr, is on display in the Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery.
Altomonte said. “You see this all the time in the media, but often times it’s shadowed by political pundits giving you their information, rather than what we have displayed
here, which is what’s actually happening. There are no opinions going on here.” Mohamad Hafez is a Syrian born architect working out of New Haven,
Connecticut. While studying in the United States, the refugee crisis in Syria began to develop, and Hafez began creating art to represent this global issue. REFUGEES, 2
The Mississippi State University Esports club will host the second annual Esports Egg Bowl this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Humphrey Coliseum. Over 100 competitive gamers from MSU and the University of Mississippi will go head to head in a best-of-seven competition. The competition will include popular video games in a variety of genres, including fighting games, MOBAs, Shooters and Sports, said Jacob Collins, an MSU senior studying software engineering and MSU Esports’s vice president of external affairs. Robert “Hexagrams” Kirkbride will
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J. Broussards’ Art in the Restaurant night features MSU faculty member
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Mississippi State University, was inspired to start Art in the Restaurant after she saw a similar setup when visiting Grit in Taylor, MS. Upon her return to Columbus, she reached out to a former employee who had become an artist, Katherine Munson. The two of them collaborated to find artists who would be able to participate. “Changing the art out every month is doing a lot to make the dining room feel different,” Rogers said. Rogers encouraged students to come to Broussard’s.
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Joe MacGown | Courtesy Photo
MSU faculty member Joe MacGown, a research technician scientific illustrator, will display and sell his art at local restaurant J. Broussardsʼ Art in the Restaurant night on Oct. 8.
For those tired of the typical drab restaurant surroundings, J. Broussard’s in Columbus has been trying something different. Each month, the upscale restaurant rotates in the work of a local artist, as well as hosting an “Art in the Restaurant” night with a special five-course meal where the artist is in attendance. J. Broussard’s Head Chef Beth Rogers, a former anthropology major from
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University commemorates opening of new Animal and Dairy Sciences Building
KAYLEE RICCHETTI
STAFF WRITER
Mississippi State University celebrated the grand opening of its new Animal and Dairy Sciences Building in a ribboncutting ceremony Monday. The new building is located at the corner of Blackjack Road and Hail State Boulevard. The 34,500-squarefoot building consists of classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices and a
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graduate student suite. The building was specially designed to meet the increasing needs of the roughly 450 students and 40 faculty members that are a part of the Animal and Dairy Sciences Department, one of the largest departments in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The creation of a new building to house the growing ADS department has been in the works now for around six years, since the initial request for a
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new building was placed in 2013, according to Reuben Moore, interim vice president of the Division of Agriculture. The new building will replace the department’s old home in Ballew Hall, which has been in use as the ADS main building for 57 years since its opening in 1962. Now that the new building is finally completed and dedicated, the ADS department is wasting no time in making use of the facility.
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Kaylee Ricchetti | The Reflector
University and department administrators celebrate the grand opening of MSUʼs new Animal and Dairy Sciences Building.
FORECAST:The heat is going to be sticking with us for a couple more days, but a weak cold front will bring some cooler temperatures for Friday. For the weekend, we do have some rain in our forecast. A strong cold front will push through by Monday, bringing those temperatures back to our average high for this time of year.
Courtesy of Arin Carpenter, Campus Connect Meteorologist
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